Bug#1115177: lintian: warns about latest host (dev) tools API available in stable
On 15/09/25 at 03:25 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2025, Nilesh Patra wrote:
>
> >But why should it be omitted? I think moving it to info should be good
> >enough to do here -- we would like to encourage maintainers to move to
> >a newer watch version eventually.
>
> It’s likely fatal if they upgrade prematurely, though.
>
> (And, perhaps I was a bit angry, but recent lintian churn has
> been immense every time it got updated… this is getting on the
> nerves of all package maintainers…)
I'm glad there's a lot of activity again around lintian, even if that
means that we need to temporarily deal with more churn (and possibly
some tags that need to be adjusted) while the backlog gets reduced.
Lucas
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